Horsey finds a little bit extra to deny Parry

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David Horsey, the England international, laid a bogey to rest in the Amateur Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes in Lancashire yesterday.

Horsey’s rounds of 64 at Royal Lytham on Monday, which equalled the course record, and a 68 at St Anne’s Old Links on Tuesday, had made him the leading qualifier and the person who has held that honour in many recent Amateur championships has then been beaten in the first matchplay round.

Horsey, though, was having none of it. He defeated John Parry at the 21st to avoid the fate of five of the past seven leading